Shortlisted For The Booker Prize, Percival Everett&39;s The Trees Is A Powerful Satire Of Revenge And Racial Justice In America.page-turning Comic Horror The Guardiansatire In The Great Tradition Of Swift By Way Of South Park The Daily Telegraphhilarious And Horrifying The New Yorkerwhen The Rural Town Of Money, Mississippi Is Beset By A Series Of Brutal Murders, A Pair Of Detectives From The Mississippi Bureau Of Investigation Arrive. They&39;re Greeted With Resistance From The Local Sheriff, His Deputy, The Coroner, And A Mob Of Racist White Townsfolk.this, They Expect. Less Predictable, However, Is The Second Corpse Which Appears At Each Crime Scene: That Of A Man Resembling Emmett Till, The Young Black Boy Lynched In The Same Town Sixty-five Years Earlier.as A Spate Of Copycat Killings Spreads Across The Country, What Begins As A Murder Investigation Soon Becomes A Journey Into The Soul Of Americas Violent Past.